Canberra, Australian War Memorial, 1953 to 1977 (eight volumes are second printings, one of them - the first in the Army series - with corrections; three volumes are third printings; the other eleven are first editions). [22 items]. More
The Radfords were born in Devon, emigrated to South Australia in October 1838, and lived in the Barossa Valley from the mid-1840s until their death. From the perceived ages of the subjects, these images would appear to date from the 1850s. Other (later) images of the Radfords are held in..... More
When compared with all other examples of portrait photographs of either explorer in the public domain, this matching pair - delicately hand-coloured and skilfully vignetted to the head and shoulders - has little if any competition. And significantly, they are fresh to the market ... However, when it came to..... More
Perth, Wm. Alfred Watson, Government Printer, 1902. Western Australian Parliamentary Paper Number 46 of 1902; only 1200 copies were printed. The 'expedition was fitted out to explore the remaining unknown regions of Australia on similar lines to the Elder expedition'. Lawrence Allen Wells, third in command on the ill-fated Elder..... More
Adelaide, Government Printer, 1989 (facsimile edition)/ 1814. A superb production, limited to only 500 numbered sets (this is number 98). The storage box was designed with a matching two-door lid opening at the centre, and attached to the base with piano hinges. About a third of the edition was issued..... More
Adelaide, FSLSA, 1995 to 2010. All but two of the items are bound in quarter or half leather; nineteen are limited to 99 copies (and the others are limited to 50, 75, 90, 125, 150 and 199 copies respectively, with two of them 150). The original subscription to copy number..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1877 (second edition). A rarity: we have handled only four copies in over 46 years, and this is a parochial publication. Ernst Bernhard Heyne (1825-1881), botanist and horticulturist, 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller, his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to..... More
Adelaide, E.S. Wigg & Son, 1877 (second edition). A rarity: we have handled only four copies in over 46 years, and this is a parochial publication. Ernst Bernhard Heyne (1825-1881), botanist and horticulturist, 'was a prodigious writer. Though overshadowed by von Mueller, his botanical and horticultural work greatly contributed to..... More
Adelaide, 'published by Superintendent of Club', 1872. The name of the anonymous author, a cousin of the somewhat more famous Victor, is added in pencil on the title page. Ferguson 10643 (recording only 'blue morocco cloth boards'). 'By 1866 a ravaging northern drought accelerated the need to succour bush workers..... More
Adelaide, S. Solomon, 51 Rundle St. 1891. The South Australian 'Register' (Monday, 20 April 1891) contains an interesting article on a recent match between Norwood and Maylands, adjoining suburbs in Adelaide. 'On Saturday afternoon an opening match was played on the Adelaide Oval. It was a preliminary game arranged for..... More
Charles Scott (1878-1928) is listed as a photographer at that address in South Australian directories 'from 1909 to 1915+' (Photohistory SA website). The Art Gallery of SA gives the date '1903-04' for this image in its collection, and we take this date to be when the original negative was exposed..... More
Adelaide, H.F. Leader, Government Printer, 1888. This rare pamphlet contains an account of Lindsay's 'Arnheim's Land Explorations in 1883', but it primarily concerns a more recent expedition, 'a private one, fitted out at my own expense'. The 'Australian Dictionary of Biography' has the following to say about this series of..... More
Sydney, The Shepherd Press, [1945]. Number 376 of 1000 copies with the artist's signature in facsimile. This copy is inscribed 'Because Lois is beautiful this is her book, from Bill Rodie, 4-iii-49'. Bill Rodie wrote a gossip and scandal column ('Bill Rodie Presents Real Life') in the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph'..... More
Gill's titles are 'Cradling, Forest Creek 1852', 'The Claim Disputed', 'Mustering Cattle', 'Native Sneaking Emus', and 'The Bushranger Pursued'. Hamilton's titles, in which the horse naturally enough features prominently, are 'The Lost Bushman', 'The Found Bushman', 'Bushmen in Danger', 'Australian Bushmen', and 'The Bushman'. Unpublished, but circa 1890, and based..... More
Sydney, Sherriff & Downing, [1863]. Provenance: Thomas Thornton Reed (1902-1995), Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide, with his signature in pencil at the head of the title page. Ferguson 15645 (supplying the date; the advertisement on the rear flyleaf contains testimonials dated January 1863, and suggests those wishing to 'be supplied in..... More
Adelaide, State Publishing, 1989 to 1992 (facsimile editions, first thus)/ 1866-1870, 1869, and 1910-1927, respectively. Each volume is number 232 of 500 copies of a facsimile edition of works originally owned and used by Samuel Albert White (1870-1954), 'ornithologist and conservationist ... His most arduous and important work as a...... More
Melbourne, M.L. Hutchinson, [1906]. Twelve verses by Annie Isobel Rentoul, with illustrations by her daughter Ida Sherbourne Rentoul (later Outhwaite). Ida Rentoul Outhwaite's second book (after 'Mollie's Bunyip', 1904). Muir 6333. More
[Melbourne], Australian Post Office, 1972. The photographs show the official centenary celebrations at Alice Springs on 22 August 1972 (46 photographs, including the reopening of the restored Old Telegraph Station), and in Adelaide on 21 and 22 August (5 photographs). Dignitaries present include Sir Alan Hulme (Postmaster General), Sir Arthur..... More
London, 'Communicated by the Commons to the Lords', and 'Ordered to be printed 21st June 1841'. Great Britain and Ireland Parliamentary Paper 174 of 1841 (the House of Lords issue, Ferguson 3221 [with minor pagination errors]: see also Ferguson 3218 and 3219). 'This Report contains very complete information regarding the..... More
Buckland Park is a pastoral property near Port Gawler, South Australia. George Frederick Ernest Albert, The Duke of Cornwall and York and later King George V (1865-1936) was the second eldest son of King Edward VII, who ascended the throne on Queen Victoria's death in January 1901. With the first..... More
Sydney, The Author, 1924. Number 164 of 1000 copies signed by the author. The book, including the fine collotypes, was 'made and printed' in Vienna (the plates by Max Jaffe, the book by A. Holzhausen). More